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David Ayer has tweeted the first full cast picture of the Suicide Squad. Will Smith also revealed the full Deadshot costume on his Facebook page.
Had to reblog. Man. It’s just so weird seeing the stark differences between Marvel’s universe and DC’s. We’ve been inundated with bright colors and cartoonish sensibilities for so long (and for so many movies) that the DC slate is going to be an adjustment for me mentally. At least (it seems) DC is committing to one look.
Muted colors, characters are pretty difficult to recognize for those not intimately familiar with the Suicide Squad concept, and there’s little to no character present in any character except for maybe Harley. Also, what is with Deadshot’s mask? Why is it so starkly white when the rest of the costume looks like red and gray paintball gear? Faith in DC movies dropping.
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DC hero movie: I’m here to help the people, protect them. *Half the city is destroyed with relatively little regard for civilians*
Marvel hero movie: I’m here to help the people, protect them. *Half the city is destroyed while there is a legitimate effort to evacuate as many people as possible.*
Methinks that a hiatus on all non-Papi blogs is in order. The desire to draw outside of Papi’s updates has not been with me of late, meanwhile the call of my personal, non-fandom works has grown stronger.
The main villain is an AI that connects itself to the internet to learn of humanity, and instead of becoming a walking meme becomes a cynic who believes that the best way to protect humanity is to encourage(force) them to evolve or eliminate them altogether. Following that logic the villain seeks support in the beliefs of his creators, occasionally with biblical allegory, sometimes with puppetry metaphor in response to his creation, all while never sounding pretentious or overly pompous.
Ultron is written in such a way that Tony’s playfulness and snark is present, but covering a cynical, megalomaniacal consciousness with an intimate knowledge of history, and media, led by mechanical logic and the rage of a spurned creation. Believe it or not, he’s more ‘poetic’ than Loki by a mile.
alskylark replied to your post: So… I heard you needed someone to talk about Age…
IT WAS SO FUCKING GOOOOOOOODDDDD
Yusssss. It’s a rare thing for a sequel to outshine the movie that came before, but Ultron might be one of, if not the best movie that Marvel’s put out so far. That it ties all previous films together, as well as the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter series together only sweetens the experience.
I don’t need someone to talk about the movie with, but it would be nice to have such a person. It was so good.
Good news: Avengers: Age of Ultron is out, and it is absolutely incredible.
Bad news: I know almost no one who’s seen it and so I have no one to discuss the awesomeness with.
IT’S TUESDAY ISN’T IT?! I’M BORED ASK ME CRAP YEAHHH
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A collection of general ‘fun’. I work as a customer service representative for a Visa distributor, so I’ve spent all day listening to people screaming at me because their credit card isn’t working, or their payment didn’t go through, or whatever else.
The most fun one was a woman who called in shrieking at me because her card had been denied and she’d been on hold half the day trying to get someone to help her. The card had been on hold for 10 minutes total when she called me, and when I went over exactly what would have to be done to reactivate her card (be put on hold for less than a minute so she could be transferred to another department) she started shouting even louder and demanding to speak to a manager because she’d been on hold all day already. Again, the card, not the customer had had a hold for 10 minutes total, and she called during a slow time of the day.
I get these issues a lot, and 99 times out of 100, if they’re upset and screaming about a relatively minor issue, they’re also over 60.